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Renna v. Bonta is a civil rights lawsuit against the State of California which has been quietly winding its way through the federal court system over the past two years. It challenges California’s handgun roster law on the basis of the precedent set in the well-known Heller ruling. It hasn’t...

This is a really bizarre one IMO. Back in 2019, a worker asked his company not to throw him an office birthday party because he has an anxiety disorder and a surprise party could cause him to have a panic attack. Unfortunately, his supervisor "forgot" about the request and threw a birthday...

Once upon a time, in the faraway land of Fox Valley, which lay upon the River between the Lake of Winnebagos and the Great Green Bay. . . . . . there stood two great hospitals: Neenah of the kingdom of ThedaCare, and St. Elizabeth of the kingdom of Ascension. And the Hospital of...

This is a pretty obscure thing that I only heard about today because it was in my news feed, but it's deeply disturbing. Ms. Elaine Thomas, the director of metallurgy at a steel foundry in Tacoma which supplies steel castings for submarine hulls, has pleaded guilty to falsifying strength and...

Major General Michael Collins, the command module pilot of the Apollo 11 mission, has passed away from cancer at the age of 90.

Most of the headlines I've seen on this veer towards outrage bait by saying that the court ruled that tightening lugs isn't part of a tire rotation, but that's not really the case. What went on in this case was that a car dealership in Michigan performed routine maintenance on a customer's...

Science fiction has always had progressive elements in the sense that science fiction is heavily utopian and a utopia will generally reflect the authors' idea of what an ideal future society would look like. Conversely, dystopian science fiction still reflects the authors' viewpoint.

Building designs in-house isn't a panacea against corruption, note the entire debacle of the shitty M-14 being selected over the vastly superior FN FAL and the outright revolutionary AR-10. (According to the Army, the fact that the M-14 was a little bit lighter than the FAL was a hugely...

This one is pretty interesting. Valve doesn't dictate the pricing of games sold through Steam, but the contract includes a "Most Favored Nation" clause (this is standard legal terminology; they don't actually think they're a nation or anything like that) where developers agree not to sell the...

TERFs will always yell and scream at the slightest hint of civil rights for trans women. That's been an integral element of their hate-filled chorus since the beginning of third-wave "radical feminism". TERF ideology literally posits that the *mere existence* of trans women is "philosophically...

I think that most people here will agree that Hollywood's current trend of remaking old movies is often *really annoying*, because movies that were already great don't get any better when you regurgitate them with better special effects. On the other hand, I would argue that there *are* movies...

Ehhh, Solo was a horrific miscast in my opinion -- Ehrenreich is utterly unconvincing as Solo in every possible way, including, "This man has the second most punchable face and mannerisms I've ever seen in an human being, to the point where I'm actively rooting for the bad guys to maim him." I...

This came up on my Google News feed a little while ago, and I think it's an interesting one to share and discuss. Since this is a state-on-state dispute, it will go directly to SCOTUS as the court of original jurisdiction. Here's a news article from NBC Boston. Under normal circumstances...

Inspired by recent conversation with @LordSunhawk, I shall open with a humble scout tank design. Scout Tank SCT-1T Mass: 100 tons Tech Base: Inner Sphere Motive Type: Tracked Rules Level: Tournament Legal Era: Clan Invasion Tech Rating/Era Availability: E/X-X-E-A Production Year: 3070 Cost...

Historically, there hasn't been any authoritative rule from NASA or the ESA regarding "deconfliction" of satellites at risk of collision. However, the informal consensus has been that the satellite which has been on orbit longer has right of way over the newer one, for the practical reason that...